(zoology) The European bison (Bison bonasus, or Europæus).
An extinct European mammal, Bos primigenius, the ancestor of domestic cattle.
plural of auroch
autocar
autocar
noun
(archaic) A road vehicle powered by steam or electricity rather than by traction.
bescour
boucher
bouncer
bouncer
noun
(Internet) An account or server (as with IRC and FTP) that invisibly redirects requests to another, used for anonymity or vanity.
(cricket) A short-pitched ball that bounces up towards, or above the height of the batsman’s head.
(dated) One who bounces; a large, heavy person who makes much noise in moving.
(informal) A member of security personnel employed by bars, nightclubs, etc to maintain order and deal with patrons who cause trouble.
(slang, archaic) A boaster; a bully.
(slang, archaic) A bold lie.
(slang, archaic) A liar.
A bouncy castle.
A kind of seat mounted in a framework in which a baby can bounce up and down.
Something big; a good stout example of the kind.
bourock
broucek
buccaro
buceros
burdock
burdock
noun
Any of the species of biennial thistles in the genus Arctium.
burrock
burrock
noun
A small weir or dam in a river to direct the stream to gaps where fish traps are placed.
camauro
camauro
noun
A cap, of crimson velvet, trimmed with ermine, worn by the pope.
candour
candour
noun
British spelling and Canada standard spelling of candor.
carfour
carfour
noun
Synonym of carfax
caribou
caribou
noun
Any of several North American subspecies of the reindeer, Rangifer tarandus.
carious
carious
adj
Having caries (bone or tooth decay); decayed, rotten.
carnous
carnous
adj
(rare or obsolete) Fleshy.
carolus
carolus
Noun
An old English gold coin, worth 20 (or later 23) shillings.
carouba
carouse
carouse
noun
A drinking bout; a carousal.
A large draught of liquor.
verb
(intransitive) To drink to excess.
(intransitive) To engage in a noisy or drunken social gathering.
cereous
cereous
adj
(obsolete) waxen; like wax
choreus
choreus
noun
(prosody) A tribrach.
(prosody) A trochee.
chorous
chouser
chouser
noun
Agent noun of chouse: one who chouses.
churoya
cilurzo
cirrous
cirrous
adj
(botany, zoology) Pertaining to cirri; having filaments, fibrous.
Pertaining to cirrus clouds.
citrous
citrous
adj
(uncommon) Pertaining to (plants and fruits of) the genus Citrus; pertaining to citrus plants and their fruits.
clamour
clamour
noun
British spelling and Canadian spelling spelling of clamor
verb
(transitive, obsolete) To repeat the strokes quickly on (bells) so as to produce a loud clang.
(transitive, obsolete) To salute loudly.
(transitive, obsolete) To stun with noise.
Britain and Canada spelling of clamor
closure
closure
noun
(mathematics) The smallest set that both includes a given subset and possesses some given property.
(obsolete) That which encloses or confines; an enclosure.
(politics) A method of ending a parliamentary debate and securing an immediate vote upon a measure before a legislative body.
(programming) An abstraction that represents a function within an environment, a context consisting of the variables that are both bound at a particular time during the execution of the program and that are within the function's scope.
(sociology) The phenomenon by which a group maintains its resources by the exclusion of others from their group based on varied criteria. ᵂᵖ
(topology, of a set) The smallest closed set which contains the given set.
A device to facilitate temporary and repeatable opening and closing.
A feeling of completeness; the experience of an emotional conclusion, usually to a difficult period.
An event or occurrence that signifies an ending.
That which closes or shuts; that by which separate parts are fastened or closed.
The act of shutting or closing something permanently or temporarily.
The act of shutting; a closing.
The process whereby the reader of a comic book infers the sequence of events by looking at the picture panels.
clotbur
clotbur
noun
(UK, dialect) The burdock.
The cocklebur.
cloture
cloture
noun
(law, politics, chiefly US) In legislative assemblies that permit unlimited debate (that is, a filibuster): a motion, procedure or rule by which debate is ended so that a vote may be taken on the matter. For example, in the United States Senate, a three-fifths majority vote of the body is required to invoke cloture and terminate debate.
verb
To end legislative debate by this means.
cloured
cloured
verb
simple past tense and past participle of clour
clouter
clouter
noun
(obsolete) One who patches clothes.
One who clouts or strikes.
cneorum
cobourg
cobourg
noun
(archaic) A thin worsted fabric for women's dresses.
codorus
coeburn
coenure
coenure
noun
the larva of Taenia coenurus, the canine tapeworm - causes staggers in sheep
coenuri
coenuri
noun
plural of coenurus
coiture
cojuror
cojuror
noun
One of a group of people who swear an oath together
colburn
colorum
colorum
noun
(Philippines) A public transport vehicle operating without a franchise.
(Philippines) A rebel organization characterized by religious fanaticism or a member thereof.
colours
colours
noun
(nautical) Flag denoting the nationality of a vessel, flown from the stern.
plural of colour
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of colour
coloury
coloury
adj
Having plenty of colour; colorful.
coluber
colunar
colures
colures
noun
plural of colure
comarum
combure
comourn
concurs
concurs
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of concur
congrue
congrue
verb
(obsolete) To agree; to be suitable.
conjure
conjure
noun
(African-American Vernacular) The practice of magic; hoodoo; conjuration.
verb
(intransitive) To perform magic tricks.
(intransitive, archaic) To practice black magic.
(intransitive, obsolete) To conspire or plot.
(transitive) To evoke.
(transitive) To imagine or picture in the mind.
(transitive) To summon (a devil, etc.) using supernatural power.
(transitive, archaic) To enchant or bewitch.
(transitive, archaic) To make an urgent request to; to appeal to or beseech.
conjury
conjury
Noun
conjuration
conquer
conquer
verb
(dated) To gain, win, or obtain by effort.
To acquire by force of arms, win in war; to become ruler of; to subjugate.
To defeat in combat; to subjugate.
To overcome an abstract obstacle.
conteur
contour
contour
noun
(figurative) A general description giving the most important points.
(linguistics) a speech sound which behaves as a single segment, but which makes an internal transition from one quality, place, or manner to another.
A line on a map or chart delineating those points which have the same altitude or other plotted quantity: a contour line or isopleth.
An outline, boundary or border, usually of curved shape.
verb
(intransitive) To practise the makeup technique of contouring.
(transitive) To form a more or less curved boundary or border upon.
(transitive) To mark with contour lines.
conturb
conturb
verb
(transitive) To disturb or perturb greatly.
conurus
conusor
conusor
noun
(law) A cognizor.
conuzor
conuzor
noun
Obsolete form of conusor.
copreus
copular
copular
adj
(grammar) Being or relating to a copula.
corbeau
corbeau
noun
(historical) A man who carts away the dead plague victims.
A very dark shade of green, almost black.
The black vulture, Coragyps atratus.
corbleu
corbula
cordeau
cordeau
noun
(archaic) A detonating cord.
cordula
coresus
coriaus
cormous
cormous
adj
(botany) Growing from a corm.
corneum
corneum
noun
(anatomy) The outermost layer of the skin.
cornual
cornual
adj
(anatomy) Located near, or relating to, an animal's horns.
cornule
cornute
cornute
adj
cornuted
verb
(transitive) To give 'horns' to; to make a cuckold of.
cornuto
cornuto
noun
(obsolete) A cuckold.
coronus
corrump
corrump
verb
(obsolete) To corrupt.
corrupt
corrupt
adj
Abounding in errors; not genuine or correct; in an invalid state.
In a depraved state; debased; perverted; morally degenerate; weak in morals.
In a putrid state; spoiled; tainted; vitiated; unsound.
Willing to act dishonestly for personal gain; accepting bribes.
verb
(archaic, intransitive) To become putrid, tainted, or otherwise impure; to putrefy; to rot.
(transitive) To introduce errors; to place into an invalid state.
(transitive) To make corrupt; to change from good to bad; to draw away from the right path; to deprave; to pervert.
To debase or make impure by alterations or additions; to falsify.
To waste, spoil, or consume; to make worthless.
coruler
coruler
noun
One who jointly rules with somebody else.
corumba
corunna
corunna
Proper noun
La Coruña
corupay
corylus
cothurn
cothurn
noun
A buskin anciently worn by tragic actors on the stage.
cotutor
cotutor
noun
A joint tutor.
coucher
coucher
noun
(UK, law, obsolete) A factor or agent resident in a country for traffic.
(papermaking) One who couches paper.
One who couches.
The book in which a corporation or other body registers its particular acts.
cougars
cougars
noun
plural of cougar
cougher
cougher
noun
A person who coughs.
cougnar
couleur
couleur
noun
(card games) A suit of cards, in certain French card games.
coulier
couloir
couloir
noun
(climbing, skiing) A steep gorge along a mountainside.
(rare) A corridor or passage.
coulter
coulter
noun
(Britain) Alternative spelling of colter
coulure
coulure
noun
A disease affecting grapes, manifested by the premature dropping of the fruit.
coumara
counter
counter
adj
Contrary or opposing
adv
Contrary, in opposition; in an opposite direction.
In the wrong way; contrary to the right course.
noun
(Internet) A hit counter.
(curling) Any stone lying closer to the center than any of the opponent's stones.
(grammar) A class of word used along with numbers to count objects and events, typically mass nouns. Although rare and optional in English (e.g. "20 head of cattle"), they are numerous and required in Chinese, Japanese, and Korean.
(historical) The prison attached to a city court; a compter.
(martial arts) A proactive defensive hold or move in reaction to a hold or move by one's opponent.
(music) Alternative form of contra Formerly used to designate any under part which served for contrast to a principal part, but now used as equivalent to countertenor.
(nautical) The overhanging stern of a vessel above the waterline, below and somewhat forward of the stern proper.
(programming) A variable, memory location, etc. whose contents are incremented to keep a count.
(typography) The enclosed or partly closed negative space of a glyph.
A reckoner; someone who collects data by counting; an enumerator.
A shop tabletop on which goods are examined, weighed or measured.
A table or board on which money is counted and over which business is transacted
A telltale; a contrivance attached to an engine, printing press, or other machine, for the purpose of counting the revolutions or the pulsations.
An object (now especially a small disc) used in counting or keeping count, or as a marker in games, etc.
In a bathroom, a surface, often built into the wall and above a cabinet, which holds the washbasin.
In a kitchen, a surface, often built into the wall and above a cabinet, designed to be used for food preparation.
One who counts.
The breast of a horse; that part of a horse between the shoulders and under the neck.
The piece of a shoe or a boot around the heel of the foot (above the heel of the shoe/boot).
verb
(boxing) To return a blow while receiving one, as in boxing.
(transitive, obsolete) To encounter.
To contradict, oppose.
To take action in response to; to respond.
countor
countor
noun
(obsolete, UK, law) An advocate or professional pleader; one who counted for his client, that is, orally pleaded his cause
country
country
adj
(India, historical) Originating in India rather than being imported from Europe or elsewhere.
From or in the countryside or connected with it.
Of or connected to country music.
noun
(chiefly British) An area of land; a district, region.
(mining) The rock through which a vein runs.
(uncountable, usually preceded by “the”) A rural area, as opposed to a town or city; the countryside.
A set region of land having particular human occupation or agreed limits, especially inhabited by members of the same race, speakers of the same language etc., or associated with a given person, occupation, species etc.
Ellipsis of country music.
The territory of a nation, especially an independent nation state or formerly independent nation; a political entity asserting ultimate authority over a geographical area; a sovereign state.
coupler
coupler
noun
(music) A device that connects two keyboards of an organ together so that they play together.
(now rare) Someone who couples things together, especially someone whose job it is to couple railway carriages.
A device used to convert electronic information into audible sound signals for transmission over telephone lines.
An electrical device used to transfer energy from one electric device to another, especially without a physical connection.
Anything that serves to couple things together; but especially a device that couples railway carriages.
coupure
coupure
noun
(fortification) A passage cut through the glacis to facilitate sallies by the besieged.
courage
courage
noun
The ability to maintain one's will or intent despite either the experience of fear, frailty, or frustration; or the occurrence of adversity, difficulty, defeat or reversal. Moral fortitude.
The ability to overcome one's fear, do or live things which one finds frightening.
The quality of being confident, not afraid or easily intimidated, but without being incautious or inconsiderate.
verb
(obsolete) To encourage.
courant
courant
adj
(heraldry) Represented as running.
noun
A circulating gazette of news; a newspaper.
A lively dance; a coranto.
A piece of music in triple time.
courbet
courche
courche
noun
Obsolete spelling of curch
courida
courier
courier
noun
(Internet) A user who earns access to a topsite by uploading warez.
A company that delivers messages.
A company that transports goods.
A person who delivers messages.
A person who looks after and guides tourists.
verb
To deliver by courier.
courlan
courlan
noun
Limpkin.
coursed
coursed
verb
simple past tense and past participle of course
courser
courser
noun
A dog used for coursing.
A person who practises coursing.
A racehorse or a charger.
A stone used in building a course.
Any of several species of bird in the genera Cursorius or Rhinoptilus of the family Glareolidae.
courses
courses
noun
(obsolete, euphemistic) Menses.
plural of course
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of course
coursey
coursey
noun
(nautical) A space in the galley; a part of the hatches.
courtal
courtby
courted
courted
verb
simple past tense and past participle of court
courter
courter
noun
One who courts; one who plays the lover, or solicits in marriage.
courtin
courtly
courtly
adj
(obsolete) Overly eager to please or obey.
Befitting of a royal court; reflecting the manners or behaviour of people at court.
Of or relating to a royal court.
adv
In the manner of a royal court; in a manner befitting of a royal court.
couters
couters
noun
plural of couter
couther
couture
couture
noun
(fashion) The production of high-end, custom-made clothing
couvert
couvert
noun
cover charge
coverup
coverup
noun
Alternative spelling of cover-up
creusot
croceus
crocuta
crocuta
noun
Alternative spelling of crocotta
croesus
croquet
croquet
noun
(countable) A croquette.
(countable, games) A shot in this game in which the striker's ball and another ball are moved by hitting the striker's ball when they have been placed in contact following a roquet.
(uncountable, games) A game played on a lawn, in which players use mallets to drive balls through hoops (wickets).
verb
(transitive, games) To play a shot in the game of croquet in which the striker's ball and another ball are moved by hitting the striker's ball when they have been placed in contact following a roquet.
croquis
croquis
noun
(art) A quick and sketchy drawing, often of a live model. Croquis drawings are usually made in a few minutes, after which the model changes pose and another croquis is drawn.
croteau
crouche
croupal
croupal
Adjective
Of, pertaining to, suggestive of, or caused by croup.
croupes
croupes
noun
plural of croupe
croupon
croupon
noun
(obsolete) The croup of a horse or quadruped.
(obsolete) The human buttocks.
crouton
crouton
noun
A small, often seasoned, piece of dry or fried bread.
crumrod
crunode
crunode
noun
(geometry) A point where one branch of a curve crosses another branch.
cruorin
cruorin
noun
(biology) The colouring matter of the blood in the living animal; haemoglobin.
crusado
crusado
noun
Crusade
Obsolete spelling of cruzado
cruzado
cruzado
noun
An old monetary unit of Castile in the 14th century.
An old monetary unit of Portugal in the 17th and 18th centuries.
The monetary unit of Brazil from 1986 to 1990.
cudwort
cupolar
cupolar
adj
(anatomy) Of or relating to a cupola.
cuproid
cuprose
cuprous
cuprous
adj
(chemistry) Containing copper with an oxidation number of 1.